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• Work stress found to promote obesity

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  8 October 2007, by David Gutierrez
  According to lead researcher Dr. Eric J. Brunner of the Royal Free and University College London Medical School, the study provides "firm evidence that high psychological workload, together with lack of social support at work, acts as a causal factor for obesity." Prior studies have linked chronic stress to heart disease as well as metabolic syndrome, a combination of medical disorders tied to an increase in a person's risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Central (...)
  
  

• New study links fast food to increased weight

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  8 October 2007, by M.T. Whitney
  A collection of nearly 3,400 young adults were tested for a decade, and with each fast food meal they ingested, their body mass index (BMI) went up by a significant percentage, said Barry M. Popkin of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, one of the lead scientists for the study. It’s “enough of an effect to take you from being non-diabetic to diabetic," said Popkin director of the Interdisciplinary Obesity Center at UNC. For today’s American, almost half of (...)
  
  

• Obesity, Social Responsibility, and Economic Value

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  8 October 2007, by Dr. Donald Atwater, Shizuka Suzuki
  Economic Value and Social Responsibility When compelling information is presented to the public about a social issue, the marketplace reacts. A case in point is the social issue of obesity in the United States. Obesity became a visible social issue when medical research, national health organizations and medical professionals tied obesity to many health conditions such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease and found obesity to be the second leading cause of unnecessary deaths.[1] The (...)
  
  

• Obesity And Fast Foods - The Lethal Link

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  8 October 2007, by Alan Cooper
  Obesity and fast foods - there's little doubt about the link. Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United states. And it's an epidemic that has grown side by side, step by step with the the fast food industry. Eric Schlosser in his brilliant and shocking book, Fast Food Nation, describes the US as "an empire of fat," and he lays the blame for this clearly and convincingly at the door of the fast food industry. Obesity Fast Food Data Twice as many American (...)